type-compiler for SWC

[igl]

Is there a plan for a SWC plugin?

We phased out tsc a long time ago and replaced it with babel. Now we toy with SWC and also migrate to next-12 using swc. Going back to tsc is not really an option nor favourable for large projects.

Cool approach though, reminds me of the good times creating RPCs with flow runtime

[marcj]

We use a few key methods of the TypeScript compiler API (for example to resolve types or module import expressions) to be able to correctly embed type informations as bytecode. I just saw that SWC supports plugins https://swc.rs/docs/usage/plugins, but I'm not sure if it provides all the necessary functions we need to have all type information available.

While I don't necessarily agree that tsc is not an option for large projects anymore (Deepkit is large as well and works well with tsc), I definitely see advantage of having a faster compiler. I guess if demand increases we should find out if we could build a SWC plugin for Deepkit and if its possible we should do it.

[RichiCoder1]

I would put esbuild in this same boat, especially since it has largely the same problem and is becoming increasing popular.

[marcj]

We have "loader" capability now in master since https://github.com/deepkit/deepkit-framework/commit/30939492b96fd90d027728fc7a3030e8d8d24bf3. We can try to test SWC/esbuild now using https://github.com/deepkit/deepkit-framework/blob/master/packages/type-compiler/src/loader.ts

[iceKing74]

We have "loader" capability now in master since 3093949. We can try to test SWC/esbuild now using https://github.com/deepkit/deepkit-framework/blob/master/packages/type-compiler/src/loader.ts

how do i use it in esbuild?